5. Biomimicry

Pierre-Emmanuel FAYEMI, Innovation engineering consultant, PhD student, AIM-Innovation – Product design and innovation laboratory, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Paris

Tarik CHEKCHAK, Secretary, Director of Science and Environment, French Committee of Biomimicry Europa – Fondation Cousteau, Paris

Nature has always inspired mankind. It's a safe bet that it will teach us a great deal about our future innovations: taking inspiration from it teaches us to be satisfied with little by getting more. Bio-inspiration, and biomimetics in particular, offers a unique opportunity to provide methods, guidelines and tools that draw on over 3.8 billion years of prior problem-solving through natural selection. In many areas, living organisms still greatly...